Capital City Airport (Pennsylvania)

Capital City Airport (IATA: HAR, ICAO: KCXY, FAA LID: CXY) is a public airport in Fairview Township, York County, Pennsylvania, three miles (5 km) southeast of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania.

[1] In the year ending May 3, 2023, the airport had 27,348 aircraft operations, average 75 a day: 88% general aviation, 10% military, and 2% air taxi.

On October 25, 1930, a Ford Trimotor airplane flying the first transcontinental air mail stopped at the airport.

In the 1940s the airport handled war materials for the former adjacent New Cumberland Army Depot and hosted the Naval Photographic Reconnaissance Training School.

Currently it is known as the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Susquehanna, one of the largest military distribution centers for supplies and equipment for the U.S. Armed Forces Olmsted Air Force Base, just across the river in Middletown was also close, and in 1968 Allegheny and TWA moved there to newly named Harrisburg International Airport.

Cropped from the photo underneath; north is oriented towards the right
The airport (upper left) and vicinity on July 6, 2022; taken from the International Space Station with north oriented towards the right.